On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 09:25:35AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > Hm. It would be really useful to have a kernel build option which > *disables* all the workarounds we've ever put in for broken firmware. Yeah, cool! I wonder if we could reach a high double-digit percentage of machines not booting/barfing on such a clean kernel. While at it, can we please replace the fw with coreboot? :-) > Every deviation from the spec (or common sense), however minor, should > show up as a clear failure. Even the ones we *have* been able to work > around, because we still want them *fixed*. > > And there's a school of thought that says we should brick as many > Samsung machines as possible, Yep, and there's the rooted secure boot asus f*ckup which we should also advertize while booting, enabling people to use it: https://www.blackhat.com/us-13/archives.html#Bulygin /me LOLs ominously... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
